Heure vécue
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG GER
Une nuit brune
D'un soir d'hiver...
Un ciel sans lune...
C'est déjà loin !... et c'est hier.
Ardentes fièvres !
Profond soupir !
Entre leurs lèvres...
Un très long baiser vint mourir.
Et ce fut tout.
Une heure... un charme,
Puis, une larme !
Heure inoubliable, surtout !
Première page
D'un livre aimé,
Vite fermé...
De peur d'en lire davantage.
C'est déjà loin ! et c'est hier.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , title 1: "An hour that they lived", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Wahre Stunde", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust
[Administrator] , Peter Low
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2011-01-31
Line count: 17
Word count: 67
An hour that they lived
Language: English  after the French (Français)
The darkening nightfall
of a winter evening...
a moonless sky...
It's already distant... and it's just yesterday.
Ardent passions!
Deep sighing!
On their lips
a very long kiss came to an end.
And that was all.
An hour... a charm,
and then a teardrop!
An unforgettable hour, that’s the point!
The first page
of a book that they loved
then quickly closed...
for fear of reading further.
It's already distant... and it's just yesterday.
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2017 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website: 2017-06-02
Line count: 17
Word count: 74